Today's News

Brunswick County Sheriff’s deputies investigated the following incidents last week, which are taken directly from sheriff’s office incident reports:

•Breaking and entering and larceny on Maplewood Drive in Calabash; suspect entered victim’s residence and stole a laptop.

•Breaking and entering to an auto, larceny and property damage on Ocean Highway West in Supply; suspect entered victim’s vehicle and stole medication and money. The suspect also damaged the vehicle’s door handle.

A pet-food snafu has turned out to be a blessing in disguise for Paw’s Place, a local no-kill animal rescue facility in Boiling Spring Lakes.

“It was a mix-up,” Paw’s Place founder and manager Nancy Janovetz said of the dog-food dilemma that developed last Friday.

A Paw’s Place volunteer had gone to retrieve the 12-year-old facility’s weekly supply of dry and canned pet food donated by Walmart, only to learn the food had already been taken by mistake for another rescue facility.

Military Ocean Terminal at Sunny Point (MOTSU) will be conducting training exercises during the week of June 13-17. These exercises will take place in the Southport and Leland area as well as around the Sunny Point facility.

Loud noises and explosions are possible during this week due to the training exercises being conducted.

SUNSET BEACH—The town planning board has approved having a public hearing for proposed zoning text changes to allow restaurants, banks and other professional services along the town’s “main drag” in the mainland business district.

The text-amendment request was made by Carolina Dreams Golf LLC, as discussed at the June 2 planning board meeting.

BOLIVIA—Though he was fired for workplace sexual harassment last year, a settlement with county commissioners in April allowed former DSS director Jamie Orrock to resign or retire rather than be fired.

Members of the Brunswick County Board of Social Services recently adopted a resolution opposing the settlement with Orrock, claiming it “embarrassed” the board and the DSS department.

In October 2010, Orrock, who helmed the county’s DSS department for nearly 30 years, was terminated for workplace sexual harassment.